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Tree Responses to Acid Depositions into the Soil a Summary of the Cost Workshop at Jülich 1985

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Air Pollution and Ecosystems

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The review is based on the results of the 1985 COST workshop at Jülich. The main pathway of tree responses to acid deposition are summarized in Fig. 1. It occurs, that leaching of nutrients causes a plant external nutrient cycle. Together with the overall proton and nitrate input, soil acidity and soil cation pools have changed. This has effects on root structure and performance which result in decreased nutrient uptake and needle ion deficits. But, the plant internal regulation of coping with nutrient deficits is additionally perturbed by the input of nitrogen which stimulates growth at low cation supply. This causes an inbalance of the needle nutrient status which in turn results in whole plant growth reduction and needle loss. The timing of the process contains a long-term component of sulphate inputs. More recently are nitrogen inputs. Both caused a predepostiton of the ecosystems. The short-term rapid increase of nutrient deficits, which have been observed as feature of forest decline, may be due to the soil physical process of soil-aggregation, which reduces the supply of cations in dry years.

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Schulze, ED. (1988). Tree Responses to Acid Depositions into the Soil a Summary of the Cost Workshop at Jülich 1985. In: Mathy, P. (eds) Air Pollution and Ecosystems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4003-1_23

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